Officials: Israel-Italy love affair over

[Scurrilous]

Massimo d'Alema, who once referred to Israel as a ‘terror state,’ sworn in last week as Italy’s new foreign minister. Associates: He’ll change Italy’s pro-Israel policy

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3252286,00.html

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"Massimo d'Alema, who once referred to Israel as a “terror state,” was sworn in last week as Italy’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, along with the rest of Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s new cabinet.

D’Alema, 57, a former prime minister himself, is a communist and member of the Democratic Left party. He is known for his pro-Palestinian stance, and in the past has expressed his opposition to the construction of settlements, the West Bank security fence and IDF activity in the territories.

Following Hamas’ January 2006 victory in the Palestinian elections, d’Alema said that ‘while the organization is in fact extremist, the terror attacks it wages on Israel are part of the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.’

A woman who accompanied the new Italian foreign minister during his visit to Jerusalem in 1999 said that upon his arrival she greeted him by saying "welcome to Israel,” to which he responded, “welcome to Palestine."

[One Honest Guy]

1. Sounds like a rational guy.

World needs more people like this gentleman.

[tatertop]

2. This is great! We need many more like Mr. D'Alema.

[phoebe]

3. let's see how the high level Bush neo-cons react to this

should be interesting..

[Tom Joad]

4. The former govt included a coalition with Italian fascists, they supported

Israeli policies. they were quite happy with Sharon.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D677FCD1-9341-405C-AD2C-93E52E8DB77A.htm

Seems like the fascists replaced their anti-Jewish views with anti-Arab beliefs. Worked fine for the Israeli govt.

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